Médecins sans Frontières

Médecins sans Frontières

The world’s largest private medical disaster relief organisation, which provides medical assistance and humanitarian aid to refugee camps and victims of war, famine, natural disasters, and epidemics in the form of emergency medical care, immunisation and hygienic services, food and water, education, and training.

Doctors Without Borders was by far the biggest health provider in the northern part of Rakhine around the townships of Maungdaw and Buthidaung, serving about 500,000 people, most of them Rohingya, they said.

7 (Petra)--The US Defence Secretary, Ashton Carter, on Tuesday said the Pentagon "deeply regrets" the deaths of 22 people who died in a US air strike on a hospital in in Kunduz, Afghanistan run by Doctors Without Borders.

Amnesty International and Doctors without Borders have also charged that the militias use "widespread torture" against their prisoners in cities such as Tripoli, Misrata and smaller towns like Ghariyan.

Aid workers explain how teams set up primary health care clinics to take care of everyday illnesses or refer patients to a Doctors Without Borders or Ministry of Health hospital nearby to treat more serious conditions.

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